Paul Walker's Cars

A Look Back At Paul Walker's Favorite Cars

R33 Nissan Skyline

We had an R33 Nissan Skyline in the first movie. It was the yellow car that had all the plastic vinyl on the side. Peel the vinyl off and repaint the car, and then I really like it.

Toyota Supra

I also like the Toyota Supra from the first Fast & The Furious film. Recently, I finally got a Toyota Supra. I got a '95, which is close to the last year they brought them in — I think they brought them in up to '97. And it's white and hard top, which is a really rare color combination.

JDM

There’s the JDM stuff as well, which is the Japanese Design Motor Cars. I really like it. And I think a big part of the reason why I like it so much is what it represents to me; I think there’s that going on in the back of my head, because when I was a kid — and even going into this Fast & Furious thing — I kind of laughed at the JDM. And then my character’s always been the guy driving the Japanese cars. I feel like I owe it to them. But in terms of performance and what you get, bang for the buck, nobody does it better than the Japanese. Because everything’s so modular, everything’s just plug and play. It’s like they’re big-kid, mechanical Legos. Everything’s just so simple to tune and modify. And with the Japanese, it’s not over-engineered stuff; they’re very efficient with their designs. Consistently, things are overbuilt in terms of their stoutness, so it allows you the flexibility to put on bigger turbos and crank up boost without having to worry about blowing everything.

BMW 03 E36M3 Lightweight

Right now I have the largest private collection of E36M3 lightweights, which is, in my opinion, the best generation of the BMW 03. The lightweight LTWs, they only brought 60 of them to the States and they didn’t come with AC. They were basically like a weekend racer’s car: real light, everything just lightened up like what the GT3 bearing is to Porsche. It’s just really cool, so I started nabbing those up a while ago, because I realized that was going to become the “it” car. I got in just in time. I amassed a bunch of them, so I’m just going to sit on them for a while.